224 RIVERSIDE LETTERS XXIX 



This lovely autumn recalls to my mind the 

 fortnight in October that you and I spent 

 at Wargrave years ago. I remember the 

 number of glow-worms that we saw then ; 

 they are just as plentiful in this neighbourhood 

 at present. My daughter brought one home 

 yesterday, as well as one of those luminous 

 centipedes about which I wrote in Letter 

 VIII. (former series). I put both these crea- 

 tures into the garden, they seemed very lively 

 and well, but I hardly think that we shall see 

 them any more, judging from the failure of 

 former similar experiments. 



My wife and I paid a short visit last week 

 to some friends residing at Langford, a small 

 village in the south-west corner of Oxford- 

 shire, not very far from W. Morris's house at 

 Kelmscot. The church at Langford is an 

 extremely interesting one, parts of the struc- 

 ture being possibly of Saxon work, or at any 

 rate very early Norman. Its chief curiosity 

 is a " vested " crucifix, which is on the outside 

 of the east wall of the porch. The figure is 

 sunken in a sort of panel, the bounding stones 



